# Ruby Bug Day: Rubinius, JRuby, etc etc etc **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 14, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-bug-day-rubinius-jruby-etc-etc-etc/79345 "2006-12-14T12:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/combas)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-bug-day-rubinius-jruby-etc-etc-etc/79345/1 "2006-12-14T12:45:29Z")
Recently Pat Eyler blogged about the idea of a ruby bug day ( > **[Parrot Bug Day, How About One For Ruby?](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/12/parrot-bug-day-how-about-one-for-ruby.html)** > > On Dec 16th, the Parrot team will be holding their first ever Parrot Bug Day . This sounds like a great way to get more people involved in... ) I really like the idea because personally I’d like to get involved with those projects, but of course going from 0 to 1 is the hardest step, but a bug day is a great place for people to start. So the question is: 1. Are there any people interested? 2. How should we do it? From what I’ve seen of other projects the easiest way to set it up is just with a mailing list and an IRC channel. What GNOME project does is have a GNOME-LOVE day, its announced ahead of time on a mailing list and on the day of the event developers and junior programmers get together on IRC and go through code. Senior developers could also help introduce how to use any important tools (eg. valgrind) or help troubleshoot any quirks in junior’s development environment. An important point to keep in mind is that a bug day is just as much about helping newbies as it is about closing bugs. By taking the approach of setting aside a special day to help build your developer base you end up getting a lot bugs closed in the process anyway, win-win. The new developers in the weeks and months between bug-days hopefully continue going through source code on there own, closing bugs and getting a better feel for the project. Is anyone even remotely interested in such ideas? I’d like to suggest we set-up a specific IRC channel so during bug days we’d have a quiet place to chat. We could announce the days to be held here on ruby-talk, but it shouldn’t be held more than once every 2 or 3 months. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/combas)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-bug-day-rubinius-jruby-etc-etc-etc/79345/2 "2006-12-14T14:15:36Z")
> So the question is: > > 1. Are there any people interested? > Sure! I generally feel to ‘noobish’ to bother the core members of > significant projects with questions on how I can start helping out. Nothing can replace having questions answered in a live conversation with those knowledgeable in the area (after doing research on your own first of course). For instance, if one of my friends had not been an experienced Linux user of many years, learning the tricks of the trade whilst crossing over from Windows would have been much more difficult. That’s why mailing lists are so cool! So yeah, big up! > 1. How should we do it? > Looking at other successful community projects like Firefox, with its > daily (I think?) testing periods might be a good place to get ideas? Anyway, just the opinion of one of those newbies that will be getting helped out. Gustav P. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/combas)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-bug-day-rubinius-jruby-etc-etc-etc/79345/3 "2006-12-14T21:53:03Z")
On 12/14/06, Gustav P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > So the question is: > > > > 1. Are there any people interested? > > Sure! I generally feel to ‘noobish’ to bother the core members of > > significant projects with questions on how I can start helping out. > > For instance, if one of my friends had not been an > experienced Linux user of many years, learning the tricks of the trade They say there are three paths to learning 1. By reading about it yourself 2. By watching someone else 3. By listening to someone explain And its said most people are type 2 or 3 learners. > 1. How should we do it? > Looking at other successful community projects like Firefox, with its > daily (I think?) testing periods might be a good place to get ideas? Well the problem is developers are really busy people. Sometimes though they are willing to sacrifice a day and set that time aside in order to help get newly interested developers started. It all depends on them. You’d think that if it meant getting new developers excited about your project and closing bugs at the same time that every project would be clamboring to have a bi-monthly bug day. But developers are really busy people, so its understandable they may not have the time. Maybe we should just outright ask them if they would be willing? ---
**Author:** ![combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/combas)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-bug-day-rubinius-jruby-etc-etc-etc/79345/4 "2006-12-15T13:40:36Z")
On 14-Dec-06, at 6:43 AM, Alex C. wrote: > Recently Pat Eyler blogged about the idea of a ruby bug day > ( > [http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/12/parrot-bug-day-how-about-one-](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/12/parrot-bug-day-how-about-one-) > for-ruby.html > ) > > I really like the idea because personally I’d like to get involved > with those projects, but of course going from 0 to 1 is the hardest > step, but a bug day is a great place for people to start. […] > Any thoughts? Does anyone know what the 5 outstanding verified defects and 17 uninspected and pending bugs for Ruby are at [http://scan.coverity.com/](http://scan.coverity.com/) ? Mike – Mike S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://www.stok.ca/~mike/](http://www.stok.ca/~mike/) The “`Stok’ disclaimers” apply.